Woman Pours Hot Water on Houseboy for Lateness

A housewife, Mrs. Angela Achilefu poured hot water on her 17-year-old houseboy, Xhidera for coming late from an errand she sent him on Thursday. The victim lives with the couple on Akinola Street, Gemade Estate, in the Ipaja area of the state.

The woman had sent Chidera to open her cosmetics shops in the Egbeda and Gowon Estate areas for her sales girls around 8am on the fateful day, giving him N100 as transport fare, Punch gathered. The boy trekked to the shop in Gowon Estate, a few miles from Egbeda, and did same while returning home because the fare was not enough. He was said to have arrived home at about 9am, which reportedly did not go down well with the woman.

Angered by the lateness, she reportedly took the boiling water she wanted to use to prepare tea and splashed it on Chidera. Neigbours, who saw the victim with the injury, reported the matter at the Gowon Estate Police Station, leading to Achilefu’s arrest, while the boy was rushed to a hospital in the area.